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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 593750" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/bag.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bag:" title="bag :bag:" data-shortname=":bag:" /> My Mother's Days tend to be usually okay or even great in the end. I think this will be too, field mustard and all (little mother in law drama) <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/bag.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bag:" title="bag :bag:" data-shortname=":bag:" /></span></p><p></p><p>However I have to say that I'm not too fond of Mother's Day from philosophical perspective. Whole forshipping 'the institution of motherhood' rubs me a wrong way from two totally opposite perspectives. First of all, motherhood doesn't require much. Some working inner organs and opening your legs is enough to become a mother. How good job someone does in the job of being mother varies like people performances in any given task. Certainly not every mother is the best mother to their children (this has been incredibly popular slogan around here a long time.) There is no some extraordinary 'mother's instinct' that makes a mother the best expert of their child (or if there is, someone forgot to give me a dose) and not all mothers even love their kids more than anything (most luckily do.) So I really dislike that sugarcoating part. </p><p></p><p>And from the opposite view I really hate how different kind of women are tried to stuff into that small space called 'proper motherhood.' Part of this is that my kids do a macho sport and I truly, really hate how mothers are both raised to pedestal and squashed to laundry and meal service in ideology associated to that. I have sat through too many parent meetings for those teams, both club level and national junior program level (luckily not at Mother's Day, but I think I will have two more of these before midsummer) that I see red and am ready to puke, when some coach or federation guy or well-known agent or former top player tells us in condescending way how hugely important job we mothers do in doing cooking and laundry and driving our sons around and comforting them when they are down and crucially important that is (and don't even think of having an opinion of coaching or playing or your son's career plans...) ARGH! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p><p></p><p>Well, that made me feel better. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/916blusher.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":916blusher:" title="blushing :916blusher:" data-shortname=":916blusher:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 593750, member: 14557"] [SIZE=1]:bag: My Mother's Days tend to be usually okay or even great in the end. I think this will be too, field mustard and all (little mother in law drama) :bag:[/SIZE] However I have to say that I'm not too fond of Mother's Day from philosophical perspective. Whole forshipping 'the institution of motherhood' rubs me a wrong way from two totally opposite perspectives. First of all, motherhood doesn't require much. Some working inner organs and opening your legs is enough to become a mother. How good job someone does in the job of being mother varies like people performances in any given task. Certainly not every mother is the best mother to their children (this has been incredibly popular slogan around here a long time.) There is no some extraordinary 'mother's instinct' that makes a mother the best expert of their child (or if there is, someone forgot to give me a dose) and not all mothers even love their kids more than anything (most luckily do.) So I really dislike that sugarcoating part. And from the opposite view I really hate how different kind of women are tried to stuff into that small space called 'proper motherhood.' Part of this is that my kids do a macho sport and I truly, really hate how mothers are both raised to pedestal and squashed to laundry and meal service in ideology associated to that. I have sat through too many parent meetings for those teams, both club level and national junior program level (luckily not at Mother's Day, but I think I will have two more of these before midsummer) that I see red and am ready to puke, when some coach or federation guy or well-known agent or former top player tells us in condescending way how hugely important job we mothers do in doing cooking and laundry and driving our sons around and comforting them when they are down and crucially important that is (and don't even think of having an opinion of coaching or playing or your son's career plans...) ARGH! :mad: Well, that made me feel better. :blusher: [/QUOTE]
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